Comcast reviews

3.8

69% would recommend to a friend

(18,812 total reviews)
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Brian L. Roberts

73% approve of CEO

57% positive business outlook

Comcast has an employee rating of 3.8 out of 5 stars, based on 18,812 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Comcast employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Telecommunications industry (3.6 stars).

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2.0
Feb 14, 2011
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Great job security Free cable, internet, and phone service Frequent opportunities for optional overtime Great medical/dental benefits No dress code

Cons

inadequate 6 week training back-to-back dissatisfied customer phone calls - understandably customers don't call in to say that you're doing a great job, but these customers were always irate and offensive. Techs are not allowed to end a call even if the customer curse or use offensive language. Management is MIA - managers will write you up if you transfer a hostile call to them. They say that they have the same information as you, so you should be able to handle the call. Transfer to manager not allowed, even if customer demands to speak to one. Internet issues takes a long time to figure out the issues and techs will still be penalized on call charts if the call goes over the allotted 7 minutes

3.0
Feb 12, 2011

It was ok

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Free Courtesy Cable, and time off.

Cons

They outsource customer service and collections and when customers would call for "service" these people didn't know what they were talking about since not trained properly by company.

3.0
Feb 10, 2011
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

It's always nice to work for a leader in your industry, one who stives to keep their products relevant and cutting-edge. I had the lattitude to be involved in a fairly wide variety of projects outside of my regular scope of work. My local leadership was good at communicating the needs of the business and translating that into how it would benefit our customers. We all felt appreciated and valued for our contruibutions. From the engineering side there is great opportunity if you have the skills required.

Cons

Within the past 6-9 months the energy, morale and camraderie has gone out the window. I understand we are all struggling through tough economic times but if you look at the cash flow Comcast is bringing it it hardly seems to warrant the degree of "restructuring to achieve financial efficiencies" that has been occuring. For those of you who don't know what this means in real terms, the translation is eliminated jobs. All the media sees (and therefore the bulk of the population) is that we are adding heads . . . not across the board but only in call centers, and many of those aren't even in our own country where we could use them. With every efficiency achieved re-orgs have been taking place. Many people who have been folded into new teams now feel like the communication is non-existant, deemed unessential or dictatorial. Their suggestions as to how to improve the processes or performance now fall on deaf ears. Politics plays a role in these reorgs, geographic areas are staked out and the race is on to see who can build the biggest empire. Meanwhile employee enthusiasm and the can-do spirit has been squelched. With as much information as the average customer can find on the Internet, the perception they are left with is that the company is greed-driven. The number of rate increases bestowed upon customers at a time when they can least afford it only serves to confirm this view.

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